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Post by Matt on Jun 20, 2009 21:03:55 GMT -5
Solid opening contest and I am happy to see Jericho get the win. I wonder what will happen when Undertaker is in the house next week. I liked the heated segment between Stephanie and Edge. I was shocked to see the Second City Saints defeat the tag team champions in two consecutive weeks. I am little disappointed that Jeff Hardy won, but that does make more sense. I was surprised to see Kofi defeat Zeke; however, it does make sense. I love Umaga coming in to get Edge disqualified for the win. Wow! I didn’t expect Stephanie come out and restart the match. I like Punk winning, but now I wonder what you’ll do with Edge. I love Orton just being expressionless. Overall, a great show man.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 21, 2009 16:34:51 GMT -5
Velocity 6/20/09Smackdown Match: Gail Kim d. Jillian Hall with the Happy Ending ECW Match: Dolph Ziggler d. DJ Gabriel with a roll up and his feet on the ropes Raw Match: Ted Dibiase Jr. d. R-Truth with the Dream Street in a non-title match
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 21, 2009 16:51:24 GMT -5
6/20/09 Edition-Rey Mysterio is taking time off to heal some nagging injuries. Triple H's attack on him was decided to be a good way to write him off and push the rivalry between Batista & HHH. -Rumors are swirling of a Tag Team Title Unification match next year at WrestleMania XXVI. No word on whether it will be in a regular tag match or a Tag Team Turmoil match. -It is expected that some youth will be implemented into the Title picture soon. CM Punk, Jeff Hardy, MVP and Shelton Benjamin are some names being tossed around. This is seen as an attempt to freshen up the top of the card. -The WWE have finalized their plan for The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVI and it's believed that he's set up for a match against somebody who he hasn't faced at 'Mania yet, and also has a splendid record at the Show of Shows.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 21, 2009 17:16:23 GMT -5
Raw 6/22/09 Preview
-Last week, Triple H and MVP were the final two Superstars to qualify for the WWE Championship Six Pack Challenge at Night of Champions. Our still secret General Manager is at it again, as tonight's main event will be a huge encounter between "The King of Kings" Triple H & John Cena! What will these two do just days before their shot at the WWE Title? Will Batista get involved because he really wants his hands on The Game?
-Kane and JBL teamed up last week and defeated John Cena. During the match, Kane got physical with The Cabinet. Despite all of that, JBL and Kane will team up once more this week to take on MVP and Batista in another preview for this Sunday's WWE Title match. Can Kane & JBL co-exist? Will Batista be able to keep his mind on the match or will he be focused on Triple H still?
-Plus, an announcement is supposed to be made from the desk of our secret General Manager concerning the Intercontinental Title match at Night of Champions. Will Evan Bourne get the title shot he desires? Speaking of Bourne, he will team with The Technicians to take on the three members of Legacy in a six man tag match!
-Also, tonight we will finally witness the debut of "The Warrior" Kaval! Will he begin his career 1-0? Or will the Warrior falter in his debut?
Tune into the USA Network for all of this and so much more tonight at 9:00PM!
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Post by DTP. on Jun 22, 2009 14:31:03 GMT -5
This seemingly new format for WWE SmackDown is pretty nice, in my opinion. Solid opening contest to kick off, in which I wish had gone slightly longer, Chris Jericho beating Carlito is fine really, shame Carlito got jobbed out. Promo afterwards regarding the Undertaker is fine, not really a big deal. Six-person tag team match was fairly decent, seems like an okay feud going into Night of Champions. Amazing Gold Rush tournament semi-finals with Jeff Hardy beating Shelton Benjamin. Reminds me of Shelton's match on RAW, in 2005 where he fought Shawn Michaels. Good times...haha. Wouldn't of been a good match, but got Kofi Kingston over, in his feud with The Brian Kendrick for the WWE United States Championship. Solid main event, loved the reverse decision to close the show. Good show overall.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 22, 2009 14:31:16 GMT -5
June 22nd, 2009 KeyArena in Seattle, Washington Attendance: 14,215
Raw opens with a video package showing Triple H and MVP qualify for the final two spots in this Sunday’s Six Pack Challenge for the WWE Championship. It then shows Cena lose his handicap match to Kane and JBL and then Kane’s attack of The Cabinet.Jerry “The King” Lawler and Michael Cole introduce us to tonight’s star studded edition of Monday Night Raw. They hype up tonight’s John Cena/Triple H main event and the tag team match of WWE Champion Kane & JBL taking on MVP and Batista. They are cut off by “King of Kings” hitting the loudspeakers.Triple H makes his way to the ring, with sledgehammer in hand, to a mixed reaction but mostly boos. He gets on the microphone and begins to talk about his actions last week. He says that he should feel sorry for what he did to little Rey Mysterio and that he should not have done it. He then smirks and says “but it was fun.” He states that he enjoyed putting Mysterio into the hospital for two reasons. One being that he loves to hurt people and the other being that it hurt Batista to see his friend in such pain. Now that Batista is furious and is after him, he should be running from The Animal, but he won’t. He says that he won’t because he has his trusty sledgehammer with him and he dares Batista to try something. Right on cue, Batista’s theme hits and he makes his way out. Before he can get in the ring though, officials and security run down and stop him. Triple H laughs and waves goodbye to him as he’s taken to the back and Batista looks furious. Commercial Break.We return to see Batista arguing with security during the break. He gets so frustrated that he takes out two members of security and throws another into a nearby gate before storming off.Singles Match Kaval vs. William Regal w/ Layla London & Paul BurchillThis was the official WWE debut of Kaval and he impressed in this one. He was given a fantastic wrestler to work with and it showed. Kaval impressed when he hit his Krush Rush [running fireman’s carry into the turnbuckle] and his Dragon’s Wings [double underhook suplex]. Regal worked him over for a few, but he hit a stiff karate style kick and then a running kick to send Regal flying into the corner. Kaval climbed to the top and nailed his Warrior’s Way double stomp to pick up the W. Winner: Kaval (5:57) **½In the back, the cameras show Victoria walking to the ring area. Our Women’s Champion will be in non-title action, next!Commercial Break.
Non-Title Divas Match Melina vs. Women’s Champion VictoriaMelina seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle of divas on Raw, but she still put on a good match. Victoria was the aggressive one early on as she seemed to want to end this quickly so she can move on to Night of Champions. Melina hung tough though and even nailed her signature Extreme Makeover face buster, but Victoria kicked out. After a few moments, Victoria managed to end it with the Widow’s Peak. Winner: Women’s Champion Victoria (4:42) **After the match, Victoria went to get her Championship, but from behind came Katie Lea. She attacked her and laid her out with the title. Mickie James came running down next and took out Katie Lea with a big DDT on the floor. Quietly behind her was “The Glamazon” Beth Phoenix, who hit James with the Glam Slam onto the floor. Beth stood tall with the Women’s Title in her hand.Commercial Break.We return to see Josh Matthews standing by with John Cena. Cena cuts a short promo about his match with Triple H tonight and puts over how dangerous The Game can be. He turns his focus to Night of Champions and how he plans on walking out of Sacramento as the WWE Champion.Tag Team Match WWE Champion Kane & JBL w/ Paul Bearer & The Cabinet vs. Batista & MVP w/ EveFor being the first hour main event, this was rather lame. It seems as if these four were looking to Night of Champions and just going through the motions tonight. Kane and JBL picked apart MVP, while Batista seemed to have his mind elsewhere. Kane and JBL did have their differences though as they don’t like each other. Eventually, as expected, MVP made the tag to Batista, who came in and cleaned house. He would hit both Kane and JBL with spine busters. He finished off the match for his team though with a Batista Bomb on JBL. Winners: Batista & MVP (8:29) **¼After the match, Batista didn’t even celebrate as he just walked up the ramp with a serious face still. He’s apparently still furious at Triple H.Commercial Break.We then cut to the backstage area, where we see Tyler Reks and Johnny Curtis talking about how great it is to finally be a part of the Raw roster. At that moment, Jayson Paul and Shad Gaspard come up to them and tell them that they should be lucky to be on the roster. They say that they’re the only tag team that matters in the WWE and they will be the next World Tag Team Champions. Reks and Curtis challenge them to a match on Velocity this week and Paul and Gaspard accept and attack the youngsters.
We are now shown the Smackdown Rebound which highlights Jeff Hardy beating Shelton Benjamin and CM Punk defeating Edge in the semi-finals of the Gold Rush Tournament.
Next, we cut to a promo hyping up Night of Champions and it focuses on the Six Pack Challenge Match and that any man can walk out as the WWE Champion.
Before another commercial break, the cameras go to Paul Burchill and William Regal in the back. Regal says that Kaval got lucky tonight, but next week, he’ll try his luck with The Ripper. After they’re done with Kaval, they will set their sights on the World Tag Team Championship.Commercial Break.
Six Man Tag Evan Bourne & The Technicians w/ Kelly Kelly vs. LegacyThis turned out to be a very good match as all six men were on their game. Dibiase Jr. seemed to make sure that he wasn’t in the ring with Bourne at any point. As expected, Legacy worked the role of the heels to perfection. They used double teams, referee distractions and illegal tactics. After a while, Bourne was ready to end it as he got the crowd behind him when he hit Rhodes with his big double knee drop, Dibiase with the cannonball leg drop and finally, he put away Henning with the Shooting Star Press. Winners: Evan Bourne & The Technicians (7:07) **¾After the match, just as Bourne and The Technicians were celebrating, Lillian Garcia got on the microphone. She announces that RAW’s General Manager has determined the Intercontinental Title match at Night of Champions. This Sunday, it will be Ted Dibiase Jr. defending his title against Evan Bourne! Legacy didn’t like the decision while Bourne was excited. Commercial Break.
Singles Match John Cena vs. Triple HAs you expect from two stars of this magnitude, the crowd was very into this main event. Just like last week, HHH seemed very intent on hurting his opponent. He kept targeting Cena’s back. He threw him into the corner as hard as he could and he would later nail him with a spine buster. A few minutes later, Cena would begin his offensive onslaught as he hit a hip toss, belly to back suplex and five knuckle suplex. In the end though, HHH would hit a Pedigree out of nowhere. Instead of going for the pin though, he slid out the ring and got his sledgehammer. Before he could use it though, Batista ran down and speared him to the ground. Winner by DQ: Triple H (13:01) ***Batista began to brawl with Triple H to the crowd’s delight. Cena eventually got up and separated them and knocked Triple H to the outside. He then got right in Batista’s face for getting him disqualified. They get into a shoving match in the middle of the ring, while Triple H looked on smirking as the Cerebral Assassin has struck again.© WWE 2009 [/center]
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Post by DTP. on Jun 22, 2009 14:37:07 GMT -5
Ah nice, a big-time version of RAW. Nice you fitted in the little titantron links, liking that. Good promo to start off, seemed like a good way to get the side-rivalry with Triple H and Batista over. Solid opening contest to kick off RAW inside of the ring, with Kaval beating William Regal in his debut. Hopefully he doesn't walk all over Regal in the future, same goes for Paul Burchill. That'd make Burchill look embarrassingly bad. Bland non-title match there, with Melina losing to the WWE Womens Champion; Victoria. Solid tag team match with Kane and John Bradshaw Layfield losing to Batista and Montel Vontavious Porter, the six-pack challenge at Night of Champions should be good. Solid six-man tag team match there, with Evan Bourne and Technicians picking up the win over Legacy. Solid main event to close down the show. Nice action-packed RAW.
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Post by Matt on Jun 22, 2009 14:51:50 GMT -5
Interesting opening segment. I like Kaval getting the major win over Regal. I am unsure about the blue font though. Victoria winning was the right decision and I love her as champion. I love the divas running out after the match and brawling. Okay, I just realized that if you click a name it brings up their titantron that is a cool idea. Batista and MVP winning was alright, but wouldn’t have been my decision. I like Tyler Reks and Johnny Curtis challenging Paul and Gaspard to a match on Velocity. Kaval versus Burchill should be intense. Very nice six man tag. I am happy to see Evan Bourne & The Technicians win the match. I love Batista causing the disqualification for the main event. The closing segment was very good. Overall, a solid show.
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Post by abyss on Jun 22, 2009 15:42:51 GMT -5
I personally think Cena/HHH is way too big for TV but oh well. Interesting idea to do hte click thing for people's names. Fine opening segment, gets everyone pumped up for Batista/HHH again. Debut of Low Ki was fine but he should start beating jobbers before he fights mid-carders from now on. Victoria/Melina was a solid women's match there. Good tag match there, could have main evented normally. Keeping Ki strong there, change my mind because it'll make Ki look good by fighting these guys. Surprised Bourne & Technicians won. Non-finish was the right move. Good show as usual.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 22, 2009 16:08:47 GMT -5
[Credit: JORD] ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California Theme Song: "Seasons" The Veer Union Card So Far...
Six Pack Challenge for the WWE Championship Kane (c) w/ Paul Bearer vs. Batista vs. John "Bradshaw" Layfield vs. John Cena vs. MVP w/ Eve vs. Triple H
World Heavyweight Championship Randy Orton (c) vs. Jeff Hardy/CM Punk
Last Chance Match for the ECW Championship Elijah Burke (c) vs. Mr. Kennedy
Intercontinental Championship Ted Dibiase Jr. (c) vs. Evan Bourne
United States Championship The Brian Kendrick (c) w/ Lawrence Knight vs. Kofi Kingston
WWE Tag Team Championship The New Hart Foundation (c) vs. The Second City Saints
World Tag Team Championship Legacy (c) vs. The Technicians w/ Kelly Kelly
Television Championship Jack Swagger (c) vs. Gavin Spears
Women's Championship Victoria (c) vs. Katie Lea Burchill vs. Mickie James vs. Beth Phoenix
Divas Championship Natalya Neidhart (c) vs. Maria
Card Subject to Change
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 23, 2009 10:22:25 GMT -5
ECW 6/23/09 Preview-Last week on ECW, Mr. Kennedy defeated Television Champion Jack Swagger by disqualification after ECW Champion Elijah Burke ran down to attack him. Neither of these men will be in action tonight as they're preparing for Night of Champions, but they will be in the building. What will happen with just five days remaining until their Last Chance match? -Ever since the WWE Draft back in April, Ezekiel Jackson has been cutting a path of destruction through the ECW roster. He has destroyed numerous opponents in relatively quick matches. Tonight, the big man will face his first real test when he takes on former ECW Champion, Matt Hardy! Will Ezekiel's war path continue? Or will Matt Hardy really not die? -Two weeks ago, Finlay's nephew, Sheamus O'Shaunessy made his ECW debut to save his uncle from an attack by The Brood. Last week, Sheamus and Finlay helped save Matt Hardy from an attack at the hands of The Brood. Tonight, Sheamus will go one on one with Brood member, Hade Vansen in a battle of Extreme newcomers! Tune into the Sci-Fi Network for all this and much more tonight at 9:00PM!
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Post by duan on Jun 23, 2009 19:29:57 GMT -5
I'm digging you doing your own graphics now man. They look pretty well dude. I just downloaded PS again after you inspired me to start making my own graphics now. NOC is looking pretty good now man and I love the direction you have gone with this diary! Love the 6 pack challenge going on and I am hoping to see Kane retain over those guys. I'm also hoping to see Punk in that match and him beat Orton for the belt! Make it happen kev! Bourne/Dibiase should be awesome as expected dude. Very decent undercard you have going to man, I'll be giving another reply once you get NOC up dude! Keep it up please!
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 23, 2009 20:29:04 GMT -5
June 23rd, 2009 Honda Center in Anaheim, California Attendance: 16,178
ECW opens with a video package showing the events of last week’s show. It showed Mr. Kennedy, on the verge of defeating Jack Swagger, only to have Elijah Burke come to the ring and attack him.Matt Striker and Josh Matthews welcome us to tonight’s broadcast of ECW, it seems as if Todd Grisham has the night off. They hype up tonight’s main event, which includes former ECW Champion Matt Hardy taking on ECW’s resident beast of a man, Ezekiel Jackson. They also wonder what will go down with ECW Champion Elijah Burke & Mr. Kennedy.Singles Match Hade Vansen w/ The Brood vs. Sheamus O’Shaunessy w/ Finaly & HornswoggleTwo of FCW’s standout stars a few months ago get a chance to face each other on a big stage and they put on a decent showing Vansen was in control early on but Sheamus used his power to gain the upper hand until Tyler Black tripped him up. That caused Finlay to run around and begin brawling with Black and Thorn. Sheamus was distracted by this and that allowed Vansen to turn him around and drill him with his elevated DDT. Winner: Hade Vansen (6:07) **¼After the match, the lights went out and when they came back on Finlay, Sheamus & Hornswoggle were all laid out and covered in blood.Commercial Break.The show returns to see General Manager Theodore Long in his office. He’s talking with Hardcore Holly, who commended him on being the only GM in the WWE who’s doing a good job. He mentions that Stephanie and Vickie seem to be at war and that Raw’s GM is unknown. Long thanks him and Holly leaves. The Miz enters and tells Long that he wants to be in the Television Title picture. Long tells him that he needs to pick up some victories beforehand. He tells Miz that he will be in action this Saturday on Velocity.Tag Team Match Dolph Ziggler & Television Champion Jack Swagger vs. DJ Gabriel & Gavin Spears w/ Alicia Fox & TiffanyThese four turned in a solid tag team match and the focus was mainly between Spears and Swagger. Gabriel got the best of Ziggler here, unlike Velocity. Swagger showed his power advantage over Spears and used that to come close to winning on two occasions, one with a fallaway slam and the other with a jack hammer type move. In the end though, he used the Gutwrench power bomb on Gabriel to seal the victory. Winners: Dolph Ziggler & Television Champion Jack Swagger (7:00) **½The cameras cut to the back, where we see the Hurricane enter Theodore Long’s office, dressed in his super hero get up. He tells “Citizen Teddy” that ECW is full of villains and he’s letting them run free. “Whatsupwitdat?” Long tells him that he can have a chance to take on a villain of ECW next week. Hurricane nods his head and flies off the screen.Commercial Break.
Singles Match Ezekiel Jackson vs. Matt HardyAs expected, Matt was Jackson’s toughest challenge to date. Jackson came out as the aggressor and Matt’s plan was to use his speed advantage. He’d duck under Ezekiel’s attack, and deliver some lefts and rights in the corner. Eventually though, Jackson managed to catch him and that’s when the beating began. He would hit Matt with a big power slam and then snake eyes in the corner, but Matt kicked out of both. Then Ezekiel hit a big shoulder block and a Uranagi. Everybody figured it was over at that moment, but Matt surprised and got his shoulder up! He really will not die. Ezekiel picked him up and went for a punch, but Matt ducked and nailed a huge Side Effect. He covered but only got a near fall. He went for the Twist of Fate but when he spun, Ezekiel pushed him into the corner. He fell back to Jackson, who finished off the match with the Backbreaker Rack. Winner: Ezekiel Jackson (10:08) ***The announcers put over how good the match was and that Ezekiel continues to prove that he’s a force to be reckoned with.
We now see ECW Champion Elijah Burke in the hallway and he’s headed towards the arena.Commercial Break.Elijah Burke makes his way to the ring and gets on the microphone. He begins to talk about this Sunday’s Last Chance match for the ECW Title. He says that Kennedy has no chance and after Night of Champions, he’ll never receive an ECW Title match again. Burke then calls out his challenger. Kennedy comes down and gets right in Burke’s face. Burke tells him to take a good look at the ECW Title, because it’s as close as he’ll ever get to it. Kennedy laughs it off and tells Burke to cherish his time with the belt, because his harsh luck is over and he will finally win the big one at Night of Champions. Burke nods and offers his hand for Kennedy to shake. Kennedy shakes it and Burke lands a sucker punch on him and with his boxing background, it knocks Kennedy to the ground. Burke gets out of the ring and raises the title in the air.© WWE 2009
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Post by duan on Jun 23, 2009 21:37:17 GMT -5
Decent enough opener there. Good to see Hade take the victory over Sheamus, even though both men are awesome talent. BLOOD BATH! Excellent man. A predictable tag match here with Swagger/Ziggy getting the victory. Sounded like a good match though. WOW! Surprised to see Zeke to go over Hardy there. Wasn't expecting that at all man, good twist. Some good heel heat to end the night with the Sucker Punch on Kennedy. Heres to me hoping that Burke retains!!
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Post by abyss on Jun 23, 2009 23:13:55 GMT -5
Don't know either of the guys in the first match so tough for me to judge, but I'm glad Thorn's guy won. Miz push is good, wonder what Holly wants. Glad Swagger won even if DJ had to job. Liking the Zeke push for sure. Burke/Kennedy should be good, Kennedy is getting hurt with these losses but I'd rather Burke retain anyway.
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Post by Red Dragon on Jun 24, 2009 10:32:08 GMT -5
Everything is looking great since last time I replied all those many pages ago, I'm hoping Kane loses the title at NOC maybe to Cena, the triple threat should be awsome, liking Kennedy and Burke fighting over ECW title I hate when someone pushes them to world title mateiral, please put the title on Bourne either now or in the future is fits well, TBK/Kofi should be good seems more Cru than US, however I don't like Haas and Noble teaming with that awful name, I'm not a big fan either of Second city saints yes they were great in the indys but don't put them in WWE, I also do not like Spears on a PPV and Swagger being TV Champ he could be ECW champ dammit, ECW was nicley writ and the right lentgh so glad you havn't pushed Black to the moon however eventually I would like to see him as TV champ and maybe face, good luck
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 24, 2009 16:18:05 GMT -5
Smackdown 6/26/09 Preview-Last week on Smackdown, Jeff Hardy defeated Shelton Benjamin in the semi-finals of the Gold Rush Tournament. CM Punk also beat Edge in the semi-finals after Edge's DQ win was reversed by Stephanie McMahon. Tonight, Jeff Hardy & CM Punk will square off for the first time ever with the winner going on to face Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship at Night of Champions! -As announced last week, The Undertaker will be in attendance tonight and he plans on going face to face with Chris Jericho. They were last seen together at the King of the Ring in a Triple Threat match for the World Championship. Ever since then, Jericho has been calling out The Phenom and he was finally answered last week. What will The Undertaker have in store for Jericho? Or does Jericho have something planned for him instead? -Kofi Kingston defeated Lawrence Knight in singles action last week to earn a shot at The Brian Kendrick's United States Title at Night of Champions. Tonight, Kofi must find a partner to take on Knight and Kendrick in tag team action. Can Kofi find a partner in time? Even if he can, can they co-exist as good as Knight & Kendrick? Find out all of this and a whole lot more by tuning into MyNetwork TV tonight at 8:00PM!
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Post by DTP. on Jun 24, 2009 16:29:39 GMT -5
Hmm, somewhat decent way to kick off ECW on Sci-Fi here, with Hade Vansen beating Sheamus O'Shaunessy, it'd be a bit of a size difference, but it's good that Hade managed to pick up the win. Decent tag team match in the middle, I personally would of preferred it if this tag bout opened up, honestly. Hmm, lack of momentum for Gavin Spears when it comes to getting in the ring with Night of Champions rival, Jack Swagger. Can easily see Swagger retaining the ECW Television Championship. Hmm, somewhat decent main event, with Ezekiel Jackson beating Matt Hardy. Hmm, unsure about Zeke beating Matt, but it's decent nontheless. Nice finishing promo with Elijah Burke having momentum over Mr Kennedy to close the show.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 19:19:03 GMT -5
I'll leave a more detailed reply when you get the next show up, but for now, I'll just comment on what I've seen so far. ECW was pretty good, dude. I'm so lost With all these new developmental guys coming in. That tells you I need to read this more often. But the opening was good. The Swagger/Ziggler versus Gabrial/Spears match was great, imo. Glad Ziggler/Swagger picked up the win. Eh, not a fan of Ezekiel being in the main event spot. He's not talented at all. But he seems like a guy WWE would push. Smackdown looks good. I'll have to read that. I wonder what will happen between Jericho/Taker. Night of Champions is looking great, btw. Can't wait for that. Overall, this is looking solid. I'll have to read this more often.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jun 24, 2009 21:56:52 GMT -5
June 26th, 2009 Honda Center in Anaheim, California Attendance: 16,178
Tonight’s broadcast kicks off with a video package that showed Jeff Hardy beat Shelton Benjamin in the Gold Rush Tournament Semi-Finals. It then showed Edge beat CM Punk by DQ, only to have Stephanie McMahon restart the match. Punk would then go on to win and that set up Jeff Hardy vs. CM Punk in the finals tonight![ALL SUPERSTARS' NAMES ARE STILL CLICKABLE AND WILL LINK YOU TO THEIR TITANTRON/THEME MUSIC]Jim Ross and Tazz welcome us to Smackdown in Anaheim! They promote tonight’s mega main event between CM Punk & Jeff Hardy and that tonight, we will hear from Edge after the controversial ending to last week’s main event. Plus, Chris Jericho and The Undertaker will have their first face to face encounter since Jericho began calling him out two weeks ago.Stephanie McMahon makes her way to the ring to a very nice pop from the crowd. She also promoted tonight’s big time main event to determine Randy Orton’s opponent at Night of Champions. She says that no matter what, she promises that the match at the PPV will be great, but she is cut off by the theme of Edge. He comes to the ring, with a sadistic look on his face and he’s closely followed by Umaga. They get in the ring and Edge straight up demands that she makes tonight’s main event a Triple Threat match. She refuses to do that and said that he didn’t even earn his DQ win as he had Umaga hit him on purpose. Edge takes offense to that and begins to argue with Stephanie. He gets so frustrated that he grabs her by her collar and threatens to hit her. Jeff Hardy rushes out, closely followed by CM Punk and they make the save and run Edge and Umaga out of the ring. They stand tall in the ring and look out at Umaga & Edge going up the ramp. Suddenly from behind, Randy Orton sneaks in the ring and delivers a double RKO to both men. He stands over both men, still with an expressionless look on his face and raises the World Title in the air. Commercial Break.
Singles Match Finlay w/ Hornswoggle vs.John Morrison [/b] ECW’s working agreement with Smackdown kicks in tonight as Finlay visits to take on one of Smackdown’s rising superstars. The styles didn’t really mesh well and despite the crowd pulling for Finlay, Morrison was obviously the better man in this match. Finlay went for the Celtic Cross but Morrison dropped down and rolled up Finlay for the victory. Winner: John Morrison (5:03) **[/b] In the back, Josh Matthews is standing by with Kofi Kingston. He asks Kofi if he found a partner for his tag team match tonight against The Brian Kendrick & Lawrence Knight. Kofi said that he had a hard time finding a partner and says that with the match coming up next, he needs a miracle. Suddenly, The Hurricane flies into the picture and tells Kofi that he doesn’t need a miracle…he needs a hero. Not just any hero either, but a superhero. Kofi smiles, shakes his hand and they walk off together.Commercial Break.
Tag Team Match United States Champion The Brian Kendrick & Lawrence Knight vs. Kofi Kingston & The HurricaneThe crowd popped pretty big for The Hurricane’s return and as expected, Knight worked over Kofi for the majority of the match. Kendrick would tag himself in whenever Kofi was down, and then tag back Knight when Kofi mustered some offense. Eventually, Kofi tagged in Hurricane, who came in and knocked Knight out of the ring with a missile dropkick. Kendrick was the legal man though and he attempted to hit The Kendrick, but Hurricane pushed him off right into Trouble in Paradise from Kofi Kingston. Hurricane tagged him in and Kofi pinned the US Champion. Winners: Kofi Kingston and The Hurricane (6:48) **½In the back we see all three members of the New Hart Foundation. They cut a promo about dominating Smackdown as their Champions and that they would soon be coming for more gold. They have to get past Night of Champions first though.Commercial Break.We return to hear a theme that we haven’t heard since December. The Big Show makes his way to the ring to a great crowd reaction. He’s dressed like he was at No Way Out 2008 and he gets on the microphone once he hits the ring. Show says that it’s fantastic to be back and that before he got injured he was working for Vickie Guerrero. He says that will happen no more because after watching Smackdown for the past few months, he’s realized that she is no good. He even mentioned that he only got injured because he was attempting to do her dirty work. Now that he’s back, he will get right on the track to the World Heavyweight Championship. He is cut off by the theme music of “The Gold Standard” Shelton Benjamin. Benjamin gets on the microphone and tells Big Show that nobody cares what he says. He says that while Show has to worry about climbing the ranks to the World Title, Shelton himself has a guaranteed Title shot in his hand and can cash it in anytime he wants to. Show tells him that he needs to realize who he’s talking to and that he better back off if he knows what’s good for him. Benjamin laughs it off and tells Show that he hasn’t been relevant since 1999. Show takes offense to that and knocks out Shelton with one swift punch. Show puts a foot on Shelton’s fallen body and raises his arm in the air. Commercial Break.
Divas Match Maria vs. Jillian HallThis was possibly the worst women’s match in recent history as Maria showed her inexperience and Jillian wasn’t on her game tonight. It was sloppy throughout the crowd was relieved to see it end after Maria nailed the Beautiful Bulldog. Winner: Maria (3:56) ½*After the match, Maria was celebrating but the Divas Champion, Natalya Neidhart came out from behind and hit her with the sit out power bomb.
The cameras cut to The Second City Saints watching on a monitor. They mention that they do not like the way the New Hart Foundation does things. The Bella Twins come in and begin to flirt with Goldman. Steel laughs it off but tells Goldman that he better stay focused this Sunday.Commercial Break.Once again, we return to see a promo and not a match. Chris Jericho makes his way to the ring, wearing his usual suit. He grabs a microphone and says that he’s been waiting for tonight for so long. He is glad to finally be able to go toe-to-toe with The Undertaker himself. He calls him out. The Undertaker’s theme music hits and he slowly makes his way to the ring. Jericho is not fazed at all by the purple smoke, the lights going out or ‘Taker’s eerie look when he takes off his hat. Jericho thanks him for coming by, which he didn’t expect considering the fact that The Undertaker is a coward. ‘Taker gets right in his face and takes the microphone from Jericho. He asks him if he has a death wish and that if he doesn’t stop he will be sent to hell. Jericho keeps his straight face and slaps The Undertaker across the face and steps out of the ring. Undertaker stares a hole through Jericho as he, the announcers and the crowd is shocked that somebody has the audacity to slap him. Commercial Break.We come back to get a recap of what just went down between Chris Jericho and The Undertaker and the fact that next week, right here on Smackdown, Chris Jericho will team with Shelton Benjamin to take on The Undertaker and Big Show! Gold Rush Tournament Finals CM Punk vs. Jeff HardyMy god, these two put on an instant classic here tonight. They began the match with a feeling out process and some mat work that Punk easily held the clear advantage in. After that, Jeff hit a sit out jawbreaker from out of nowhere. He followed that up with a leg drop and got a near fall. Jeff tossed him into the turnbuckle and delivered Poetry in Motion. Next he hit the Hardyac Arrest [rope-aided dropkick] and again only got a two count. Punk took back control after a karate style combination. They continued to go back and forth until their finishing sequence. Hardy went for the Twist of Fate but Punk spun out of it and picked him up for the GTS. Hardy reversed it into a crucifix pin, but Punk kicked out. When they got up, Hardy nailed the Twist of Fate. He then climbed to the top and went for the Swanton Bomb, but Punk moved out of the way. Hardy crashed and burned, which allowed Punk to hoist him up and end it with the GTS. Winner: CM Punk (14:56) ****Punk celebrates as the crowd goes wild. Once again, the Gold Rush Tournament produces classic matches, none better than this finale. Punk’s celebration is ruined by Randy Orton, who just like earlier, sneaks in and attacks Punk. This time, he laid him out with the World Heavyweight Championship. He stares at the fallen body of his Night of Champions opponent as the show closes.© WWE 2009 [/center][/font]
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